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Trump Team Is Having a Terrifying Debate on How to Invade Mexico
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Here's how that's going to go:
History will repeat itself.
I just cant imagine any of his lackeys being organized enough to build a camp network that can hold millions of people. My bet is they will will try to cram hundreds of thousands into camps that can only hold tens of thousands, fail, give up, then declare victory.
That's why they'll outsource it to a private company (owned by one of their donors) with zero oversight.
Which takes us right back to the start. Embezzling money wont help hold that many people. The number were looking at is an order of magnitude greater than all people currently imprisoned in the US, which is already a huge number and major expense. Trying to come up with a camp system to hold people at that scale is just not the sort of logistical challenge that gets resolved within Trump's attention span.
Steve Bannon will set up.a fund to collect donations for build camps.
Not that any will get built.
Where do you think prisons and Wal-Marts come from? The stork?
Its the scale that is the issue. ICE has a total capacity of maybe 50k people. The entire US, federal government plus 50 states, has a combined prison capacity of less than 2 million people. And those facilities are already occupied now. Hes got to build new capacity for maybe 10 million people. Thats bigger than China's reeducation system. Its bigger than the Soviet gulags. Its bigger than the fucking Holocaust. Not just a little bit bigger, but bigger than all of those put together. And its got to be ready within 4 years, maybe 8 if he clings to power for a third term. His last administration couldn't even build the wall.
His last administration didn't have the "throw out the entire book and crown myself King of the United States" Project 2025 behind him.
I hope you're right and it's not feasible, but people would have said the same thing about Germany in the 20s.
Nah, this is what will happen.